āThink Thomas Harrisā Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knifeās edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future.ā -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBIāa futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. Itās her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.
Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. āIāve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,ā he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesnāt say.
What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossibleāsomeone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering whoāand whyāwill take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predictedāa new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.